ABSTRACT This article considers the convict/Aboriginal partnership at the heart of Jennifer Kent's The Nightingale. In doing so it locates Clare and Billy’s relationship within a broader representational history of convict/Aboriginal partnerships on screen. It explores how The Nightingale conforms to, or ruptures, the narrative patterns and tropes that have developed around such encounters. Furthermore, it considers the partnership’s revisionist potential and continuing limitations as a representational means to exploring the multi-layers of power, violence and colonisation on screen.

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夜莺的有罪/原住民伙伴关系和破裂的历史

摘要本文考虑了詹妮弗·肯特（Jennifer Kent）的《夜莺》的核心罪犯/原住民伙伴关系。通过这样做，它将克莱尔和比利的关系定位在屏幕上更广泛的定罪/原住民伙伴关系代表性历史中。它探讨了《夜莺》如何适应或破裂围绕这种遭遇而发展的叙事模式和隐喻。此外，它认为伙伴关系的修正主义潜力和持续的局限性是探索屏幕上权力，暴力和殖民化多层面的代表手段。